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First Taste. Hecht got his first taste of publishing as manager of the Cornell Era in 1917, whetted his appetite during World War I by a stint under Propaganda Boss George Creel. At war's end, while doing settlement-house work in his spare time, Hecht founded Better Times (still the official organ of the New York Welfare Council) and got the idea for a magazine to help parents give their children better care and training...
...place more emphasis on form and finesse in handling tackle than on catching fish. When a sportsman goes this far, Fishing warns its readers, "he becomes a 'tackleist' instead of an angler . . . and tackle manipulation overshadows the true goal of using fishing equipment," i.e., fish in the creel or on a stringer...
...Harrison as the idealistic journalist can deliver a speech on human rights or a quick Noel Coward-ish line with equal skill. Vivien Leigh lends quiet beauty, while Creel Parker as her father is able to arouse the admiration as well as the ire of the audience. Well buttered with wit, "Storm in a Teacup" at the same time holds political significance for an America that still remembers Huey Long...
...covered smoke-hall concerts in Brighton for 25 shillings a week. He got his fill of spot news and close calls in the Boxer Rebellion and the Russo-Japanese war. In his day he had run the Manila Times, worked for Hearst and Pulitzer and-luckily-for George Creel at the World War I Peace Conference. Lord Northcliffe, then in control of the London Times, hired him at Versailles for the Washington...
...offering their paper to President Wilson and George Creel for the U.S. cause, the Ridders rode out the war, while five of their seven German-language competitors folded. But they were convinced that there was no future in the foreign-language press, since most immigrants wanted to learn English. In 1926 the Ridders bought the New York Journal of Commerce and the feeble (circ. 12,000) Long Island Daily Press in Jamaica...